Recent content by JohnFromOKC

Thanks RR - your input is very much appreciated! Any other 6.0 Powerstroke owners please opine and contribute with your experience.

Originally Posted By: roadrunner1 I have owned 2 6.0's and had coolant filters on both, its wise to flush and install a coolant filter. I never used an ELC, I used John Deere CoolGard II which is a HOAT designed for high performance diesel applications. It is chemically similar to the Ford Gold...

Anyone who actually OWNS a 6.0 Powerstroke Excursion or truck have an opinion or advice?

So at what mileage is it typical to begin having oil cooler clogging problems with the 6.0? It has been flushed twice since I bought it new in 2003 - so just maybe that helped. I have also seen people on this forum and others post they have gotten 250,000 + miles on their 6.0's with zero...

Originally Posted By: Nate1979 Not direct experience but isn't this just one of a long list of things to do to "bullet proof" this engine in which an entire industry was created to do just that? Could be. I've had 130,000 essentially trouble free miles so far. I've had none of the list of...

Been reading the diesel forums about coolant filters. All members there seem to agree that the 6.0 Powerstrokes should have a coolant bypass filter to protect the water pump, EGR cooler and engine oil cooler from clogging up with casting sand and silica build up from the coolant. Does anyone...

I'm new to UOA and learning everything I can about it. I'm assuming everyone doesn't use Blackstone, correct? Blackstone charges $25 - are there other choices out there as good and possibly more economical? Thanks! John

Originally Posted By: Miller88 Those transmission (Ax4S, AX4N) were not that reliable. It died a natural death. I think this may well have been the case. 4th gear stopped working altogether and it was shifting so hard between 1st & 2nd and 2nd & 3rd I thought the tranny might fall out before I...

Originally Posted By: Donald Some places use a base ATF and add an additive to make it perfect for your vehicle. BG typically uses a cleaner before the flush and a conditioner after the flush. And the new fluid container in the machine probably has a QT of new ATF in it leftover which may or...

So what could happen and what has been documented? Example - changing the fluid in a vehicle requiring Mercon 5 to something other than Mercon 5? The reason I ask is because I bought a 2000 Mercury Sable for my daughter to drive back and forth to our local university. The ATF looked dirty, so...

Originally Posted By: roadrunner1 While I have no personal experience with the Traveller brand oil as long as its CJ-4 rated (which it is) it will preform as advertised. I ran a 6.0 from '04-Dec. of '14 with two trucks totaling over 350,000 mi., the 6.0 injectors prefer 10w-30 and I ran it for...

Hello everyone - new member here. This forum comes up in a lot of my oil Google searches so I decided to join up. From a past old thread I found in one of my Google searches, I read some good things about the TSC Traveller oil and decided to try it. I just changed my oil in my 2003 Excursion 6.0...